A woman in Kelowna is planning to wear the same dress for nearly 200 days straight. Ingrid Uhrich started wearing a simple black dress on January 1st as a way to be educational and to inspire others to learn more about Fashion Sustainability.
Between constantly changing styles and hemline lengths, keeping your wardrobe current can be exhausting - and an exercise in conspicuous consumption. That's why one woman in B.C.'s Okanagan is saying yes to a single dress for the next six months.
KELOWNA, B.C. - It's an Okanagan woman's plan to wear the same little black dress for 180 days. Ingrid Uhrich is 28 days into her fashion and social experiment and so far, has not repeated any outfit. "I'm allowed to accept donations, whatever, from other friends," says Uhrich, a fashion design instructor and mother of three.
If you've ever looked in your closet and thought there was nothing to wear, one Kelowna woman has found the answer - she'll just wear the same thing every day. Ingrid Uhrich is wearing the same dress for 180 days straight. She started on Jan. 1.
A Kelowna woman has given herself a strange new challenge. Ingrid Uhrich is wearing the same black dress for 180 consecutive days. That's six months. Uhrich teaches fashion at Kelowna's Centre for Arts and Technology. And she joins us now in studio to tell us more.
In an effort to publicize the negatives of what's known as fast fashion and to also raise money for a pair of worthy causes, a Kelowna woman has embarked on a campaign to wear the same dress for 180 days.
